Review(s) of: The oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century (oxford handbo... more Review(s) of: The oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century (oxford handbooks in philosophy), by Anstey, Peter R., ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, hardback, pp. 672, R.R.P. 95.00 pounds, ISBN 9780199549993.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2012
Review(s) of: Edward II, by Phillips, Seymour, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010... more Review(s) of: Edward II, by Phillips, Seymour, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010) hardback, xvi + 679 pages, RRP $45.00, ISBN 97803000156577.
‘[t]he etymological trajectories of both la moda and fashion’ (p. 5), and their cognates in other... more ‘[t]he etymological trajectories of both la moda and fashion’ (p. 5), and their cognates in other European languages. She supplements this, in the second part of the book, with a fascinating discussion of framing, distortion, and mirroring, applied particularly to the images in the costume books. Finally, she identifies a key development in mid-seventeenth-century Italy, the advent of the modanti or foggiani, groups labelled using ‘neologisms ... difficult to render into English: “fashionistas” or “fashion victims” do not completely render the nuances’ (p. 209). Paulicelli contends that writings can teach new ways of seeing the world, arguing for ‘the potential of words and language to exceed and transform the world, now seen through a new lens: fashion’ (p. 221). The book as a whole is aimed at a specialist, academic audience. It studies fashion as a mentality, paying relatively little attention to specific styles, and assumes a general knowledge of the broad developments in the early modern Italian and European fashion and textile trades. Its opening chapter provides an introduction to fashion in early modern Italy, helpfully integrating the English and Italian historiography on this topic. The book also serves to draw attention, in the context of English-language discussions of European fashion, to the importance of the as-yet-untranslated texts discussed in the last part of the book. tracey GriffitHS, The University of Melbourne
For 215 years of its existence the city of Newcastle in Australia has had a diverse history. Its ... more For 215 years of its existence the city of Newcastle in Australia has had a diverse history. Its architecture reflects its booms and declines. There are three distinct periods in the city: the convict city; the Victorian city and the modernisation of the 1950s and 1960s. Nothing remains of the convict city. The Victoria city was Newcastle’s heyday. However, although there are some significant buildings that still remaining in the city many more have been altered or demolished in the move to modernise the city in the 1950 and 1960s. This paper presents the first stage of a project that would reconstruct central Victorian Newcastle using Augmented Reality (AR) and mobile technology. AR is a technology that can insert digital information into the designers’ physical environment. AR appears in literature usually in conjunction with virtual reality, which is an environment where the digital information generated by a computer is inserted into the user’s view of a real world scene (Azuma 1997; Barfield and Caudell 2001). AR can create an immersive augmented environment by inserting digital content into the physical space where people work or live. AR has had a relatively slow transition into the Architecture, Engineering and Construction sector (Wang, Gu & Marchant, 2008; Wang, & Dunston, 2005) but do include applications in interior design, urban design and planning, mechanical design detailing, and collaborative design. AR technology is envisioned to improve current state-of-the-art of design visualization, review and collaboration. The latest AR applications have combined with mobile technology such as the use of iPhone and iPad as the interfaces, enabling the more flexible and immediate access to the technology and digital information. Although there is copious amount of photographs of the Victorian buildings of Newcastle they are held in various collections and they are viewed as individual pieces rather than a collective whole. There has been the excellent photography book on Newcastle (Turner, 1997); however, their presentation is limited by their static nature and the information they can contain is limited within that 2D format. The combination of AR and mobile technology has the capability of presenting a holist presentation of a building. In 2009, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research developed an AR application. Through an iPhone it allows the user to take photographs of the Brandenburg Gate or the Reichstage these photographs integrate with the software. The software blends corresponding historical photographs over the original photo from the iPhone. It recognizes these two buildings from any perspective and an image covers the original photo with a corresponding perspective of the historic building. Our project applies this existing application to recreate the Victorian City of Newcastle to bring alive the history of the city. It will enhance the existing application going beyond 2D images to create 3D models of the individual buildings and the cityscape. This approach is in its infancy but it has the potential to be developed into a powerful tool for academic research into architectural history and archaeology in reconstructions of lost cityscapes.
From his early days at the University of Cambridge until his death, Isaac Newton had a long runni... more From his early days at the University of Cambridge until his death, Isaac Newton had a long running interest in the Temple of Solomon, a topic which appeared in his works on prophecy, chronology and metrology. At the same time that Newton was working on the Principia, he reconstructed the Temple and commented on the reconstructions of others. An important part of his investigations concerned the measurements of the Temple, which were harmonic and were built "exactly as the proportion of architecture demands." Newton considered these proportions to be in accordance with Book III and IV of De Architectura. However, while insisting on exact architectural proportions, Newton moved away from the traditional proportions of the Vitruvian man; he derived a Newtonian man. This poses an interesting conundrum: Newton accepted the Temple's architectural proportions as outlined in Vitruvius's Book III, yet he rejected the human model Vitruvius used as the foundation of these proportions. At the same time Newton accepted the human frame as the basis of all ancient measurements and attempted to estimate the length of the sacred cubit based on the lengths of the parts for the body and the measurements set out by the ancient writers such a Vitruvius.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2011
Review(s) of: Peacemaking in the middle ages, by Benham, Jenny, Principles and Practice (Manchest... more Review(s) of: Peacemaking in the middle ages, by Benham, Jenny, Principles and Practice (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011) hardback; xii + 250 pages; RRP 60.00; ISBN 9780719084447.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2011
Review(s) of: The beast within: Animals in the middle ages 2nd edn, by Salisbury, Joyce E., (Lond... more Review(s) of: The beast within: Animals in the middle ages 2nd edn, by Salisbury, Joyce E., (London: Routledge, 2011) hardback; x + 206 pages; RRP 80.00 pounds; ISBN 9780415780940.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2009
Review(s) of: Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World, by Hoffman, Eva R (ed), (... more Review(s) of: Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World, by Hoffman, Eva R (ed), (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) paperback, 426 pages, 52 b/w illustrations, RRP $165.00, ISBN 9781405120715.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2007
To cite this article: Morrison, Tessa. The Name of the Saint: The Martyrology of Jerome and Acces... more To cite this article: Morrison, Tessa. The Name of the Saint: The Martyrology of Jerome and Access to the Sacred in Francia, 627-827 [Book Review] [online]. Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 3, 2007: 358-360. Availability: <http://search.informit.com.au/ ...
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2011
Review(s) of: Eleanor of aquitaine, by Turner, Ralph V., (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)... more Review(s) of: Eleanor of aquitaine, by Turner, Ralph V., (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) hardback; xviii + 395 pages; RRP $35.00; ISBN 9780300119114.
Review(s) of: The oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century (oxford handbo... more Review(s) of: The oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century (oxford handbooks in philosophy), by Anstey, Peter R., ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, hardback, pp. 672, R.R.P. 95.00 pounds, ISBN 9780199549993.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2012
Review(s) of: Edward II, by Phillips, Seymour, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010... more Review(s) of: Edward II, by Phillips, Seymour, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010) hardback, xvi + 679 pages, RRP $45.00, ISBN 97803000156577.
‘[t]he etymological trajectories of both la moda and fashion’ (p. 5), and their cognates in other... more ‘[t]he etymological trajectories of both la moda and fashion’ (p. 5), and their cognates in other European languages. She supplements this, in the second part of the book, with a fascinating discussion of framing, distortion, and mirroring, applied particularly to the images in the costume books. Finally, she identifies a key development in mid-seventeenth-century Italy, the advent of the modanti or foggiani, groups labelled using ‘neologisms ... difficult to render into English: “fashionistas” or “fashion victims” do not completely render the nuances’ (p. 209). Paulicelli contends that writings can teach new ways of seeing the world, arguing for ‘the potential of words and language to exceed and transform the world, now seen through a new lens: fashion’ (p. 221). The book as a whole is aimed at a specialist, academic audience. It studies fashion as a mentality, paying relatively little attention to specific styles, and assumes a general knowledge of the broad developments in the early modern Italian and European fashion and textile trades. Its opening chapter provides an introduction to fashion in early modern Italy, helpfully integrating the English and Italian historiography on this topic. The book also serves to draw attention, in the context of English-language discussions of European fashion, to the importance of the as-yet-untranslated texts discussed in the last part of the book. tracey GriffitHS, The University of Melbourne
For 215 years of its existence the city of Newcastle in Australia has had a diverse history. Its ... more For 215 years of its existence the city of Newcastle in Australia has had a diverse history. Its architecture reflects its booms and declines. There are three distinct periods in the city: the convict city; the Victorian city and the modernisation of the 1950s and 1960s. Nothing remains of the convict city. The Victoria city was Newcastle’s heyday. However, although there are some significant buildings that still remaining in the city many more have been altered or demolished in the move to modernise the city in the 1950 and 1960s. This paper presents the first stage of a project that would reconstruct central Victorian Newcastle using Augmented Reality (AR) and mobile technology. AR is a technology that can insert digital information into the designers’ physical environment. AR appears in literature usually in conjunction with virtual reality, which is an environment where the digital information generated by a computer is inserted into the user’s view of a real world scene (Azuma 1997; Barfield and Caudell 2001). AR can create an immersive augmented environment by inserting digital content into the physical space where people work or live. AR has had a relatively slow transition into the Architecture, Engineering and Construction sector (Wang, Gu & Marchant, 2008; Wang, & Dunston, 2005) but do include applications in interior design, urban design and planning, mechanical design detailing, and collaborative design. AR technology is envisioned to improve current state-of-the-art of design visualization, review and collaboration. The latest AR applications have combined with mobile technology such as the use of iPhone and iPad as the interfaces, enabling the more flexible and immediate access to the technology and digital information. Although there is copious amount of photographs of the Victorian buildings of Newcastle they are held in various collections and they are viewed as individual pieces rather than a collective whole. There has been the excellent photography book on Newcastle (Turner, 1997); however, their presentation is limited by their static nature and the information they can contain is limited within that 2D format. The combination of AR and mobile technology has the capability of presenting a holist presentation of a building. In 2009, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research developed an AR application. Through an iPhone it allows the user to take photographs of the Brandenburg Gate or the Reichstage these photographs integrate with the software. The software blends corresponding historical photographs over the original photo from the iPhone. It recognizes these two buildings from any perspective and an image covers the original photo with a corresponding perspective of the historic building. Our project applies this existing application to recreate the Victorian City of Newcastle to bring alive the history of the city. It will enhance the existing application going beyond 2D images to create 3D models of the individual buildings and the cityscape. This approach is in its infancy but it has the potential to be developed into a powerful tool for academic research into architectural history and archaeology in reconstructions of lost cityscapes.
From his early days at the University of Cambridge until his death, Isaac Newton had a long runni... more From his early days at the University of Cambridge until his death, Isaac Newton had a long running interest in the Temple of Solomon, a topic which appeared in his works on prophecy, chronology and metrology. At the same time that Newton was working on the Principia, he reconstructed the Temple and commented on the reconstructions of others. An important part of his investigations concerned the measurements of the Temple, which were harmonic and were built "exactly as the proportion of architecture demands." Newton considered these proportions to be in accordance with Book III and IV of De Architectura. However, while insisting on exact architectural proportions, Newton moved away from the traditional proportions of the Vitruvian man; he derived a Newtonian man. This poses an interesting conundrum: Newton accepted the Temple's architectural proportions as outlined in Vitruvius's Book III, yet he rejected the human model Vitruvius used as the foundation of these proportions. At the same time Newton accepted the human frame as the basis of all ancient measurements and attempted to estimate the length of the sacred cubit based on the lengths of the parts for the body and the measurements set out by the ancient writers such a Vitruvius.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2011
Review(s) of: Peacemaking in the middle ages, by Benham, Jenny, Principles and Practice (Manchest... more Review(s) of: Peacemaking in the middle ages, by Benham, Jenny, Principles and Practice (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011) hardback; xii + 250 pages; RRP 60.00; ISBN 9780719084447.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2011
Review(s) of: The beast within: Animals in the middle ages 2nd edn, by Salisbury, Joyce E., (Lond... more Review(s) of: The beast within: Animals in the middle ages 2nd edn, by Salisbury, Joyce E., (London: Routledge, 2011) hardback; x + 206 pages; RRP 80.00 pounds; ISBN 9780415780940.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2009
Review(s) of: Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World, by Hoffman, Eva R (ed), (... more Review(s) of: Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World, by Hoffman, Eva R (ed), (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) paperback, 426 pages, 52 b/w illustrations, RRP $165.00, ISBN 9781405120715.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2007
To cite this article: Morrison, Tessa. The Name of the Saint: The Martyrology of Jerome and Acces... more To cite this article: Morrison, Tessa. The Name of the Saint: The Martyrology of Jerome and Access to the Sacred in Francia, 627-827 [Book Review] [online]. Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 3, 2007: 358-360. Availability: <http://search.informit.com.au/ ...
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association, 2011
Review(s) of: Eleanor of aquitaine, by Turner, Ralph V., (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)... more Review(s) of: Eleanor of aquitaine, by Turner, Ralph V., (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) hardback; xviii + 395 pages; RRP $35.00; ISBN 9780300119114.
The central characters in Shakespeare’s plays are predominantly males. There are usually only 2 t... more The central characters in Shakespeare’s plays are predominantly males. There are usually only 2 to 4 roles for women, who are in the minority, as opposed to the 10 to 20 roles for men. Yet so many of the women’s roles demonstrate fearlessness in defying their situation. Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the power of the women, and this book builds on this scholarship. With the exception of Cleopatra, women are not at the apex of political power, but are always looking at attaining power. Shakespeare entwines their character in textual images within his text, whether it is the sharp-tongued Beatrice, the ambitious Lady Macbeth, or the passionate Juliet. Shakespeare leaves no doubt about their character as he builds an image with words that can be interpreted visually. Paintings of the 16th century show images of historical characters such as Cleopatra in contemporary clothing. Images of the Elizabethan and Stewart stage also show contemporary clothing but often with something that signifies their role. For instance, the only surviving contemporary illustration of a Shakespearian play in action is the Peacham drawing c1595. The drawing is crude and consists of seven figures from the play of Titus Andronicus set in classical Rome. They are wearing contemporary clothing, the men are wearing 16th century armour, and the foreign and exotic Queen is wearing an Elizabethan gown. Titus is shown as wearing a ‘toga’, a shawl draped over his 16th century armour. In the texts of Shakespeare’s period plays there are also references to contemporary garments such as doublets, night caps, and laces of girdles. The texts of the plays are carefully analysed to identify the imagery around and about the women. Each of these images can be depicted graphically. The collection of these graphic images for each woman depicts her character and role in the play. A necklace is designed with these images that create a story. The necklaces are worked in enamel which lends itself to storytelling, thus making it possible to illustrate Shakespeare’s imagery that he develops for each of his women. The graphic analysis of the imagery and its realisation brings alive the textural imagery of Shakespeare.
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Paintings of the 16th century show images of historical characters such as Cleopatra in contemporary clothing. Images of the Elizabethan and Stewart stage also show contemporary clothing but often with something that signifies their role. For instance, the only surviving contemporary illustration of a Shakespearian play in action is the Peacham drawing c1595. The drawing is crude and consists of seven figures from the play of Titus Andronicus set in classical Rome. They are wearing contemporary clothing, the men are wearing 16th century armour, and the foreign and exotic Queen is wearing an Elizabethan gown. Titus is shown as wearing a ‘toga’, a shawl draped over his 16th century armour. In the texts of Shakespeare’s period plays there are also references to contemporary garments such as doublets, night caps, and laces of girdles.
The texts of the plays are carefully analysed to identify the imagery around and about the women. Each of these images can be depicted graphically. The collection of these graphic images for each woman depicts her character and role in the play. A necklace is designed with these images that create a story. The necklaces are worked in enamel which lends itself to storytelling, thus making it possible to illustrate Shakespeare’s imagery that he develops for each of his women. The graphic analysis of the imagery and its realisation brings alive the textural imagery of Shakespeare.